Revivalism (architecture)

Typical historicist house: Gründerzeit building by Arwed Roßbach in Leipzig, Germany (built in 1892)

See also: Revival architectural styles

Revivalism in architecture is the use of visual styles that consciously echo the style of a previous architectural era.

There were a number of architectural revivalist movements in the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

List of architectural revivals

• Mixed styles
  • Gründerzeit (German historicist architecture, distinctive style mélange - later variations included e.g. "Heimatstil")
  • Historicism (mixed revivals that can include several older styles, combining with new elements)
    • Neo-Historism (revival of historicist architecture including several revival styles - emerged from Postmodern architecture in the late 1990s)
  • Traditionalist School (revival of different regional traditional styles)

• Western civilizations Revivalist architecture
  • Preclassical Revival:
    • Mycenaean Revival architecture (revival of Mycenaean Greek architecture)
  • Classical Revival:
    • Neoclassical architecture (revival of Classical architecture)
      • Federal architecture
      • Greek Revival architecture (revival of Ancient Greek architecture)
      • Jeffersonian architecture
      • Regency architecture
      • Russian neoclassical revival
  • Postclassical Revival:
    • Byzantine Revival architecture (revival of Byzantine architecture)
      • Bristol Byzantine
      • Russo-Byzantine architecture
  • Medieval Revival:
    • Romanesque Revival architecture (revival of Romanesque architecture)
      • Richardsonian Romanesque
    • Gothic Revival architecture (revival of Gothic architecture)
      • Carpenter Gothic
      • Neo-Manueline (revival of Manueline)
      • Scots Baronial Style architecture
    • Russian Revival architecture (revival of Kievan Rus architecture)
  • Renaissance Revival:
    • Renaissance Revival architecture (revival of Renaissance architecture)
      • Italianate architecture
      • Palazzo style architecture - revival based on Italian Palazzo
      • Mediterranean Revival architecture (revival of Italian Renaissance architecture)
      • Palladian Revival architecture (revival of Palladian architecture)
      • Châteauesque (revival of French Renaissance architecture)
      • Spanish Revival architecture (revival of Spanish Renaissance architecture)
  • Baroque Revival:
    • Baroque Revival architecture (revival of Baroque architecture)
      • Dutch Revival architecture (revival of Dutch Baroque architecture)
      • Spanish Revival architecture (revival of Spanish Baroque architecture)
      • Edwardian Baroque architecture
      • Stalinist baroque
    • Swiss chalet style
      • Queen Anne Style architecture
  • Modern era Revivals:
    • Tudor Revival architecture (revival of Tudor Style architecture)
      • Black-and-white Revival architecture
      • Jacobethan (revival of Jacobean architecture and Elizabethan architecture)
    • Colonial Revival architecture (revival of American Colonial architecture)
      • Cape Cod Revival (revival of Cape Cod)
      • Dutch Colonial Revival architecture (revival of Dutch Colonial architecture)
      • Georgian Revival architecture (revival of Georgian architecture)
    • Mediterranean Revival architecture (revival of Italian Renaissance architecture and Spanish Baroque architecture)
    • Spanish Colonial Revival architecture (revival of Spanish Colonial architecture and Churrigueresque style)
      • Mission Revival Style architecture (revival of Architecture of the California Missions)

• Non-Western civilizations Revivalist architecture (largely Orientalist)
  • Egyptian Revival architecture (revival of Ancient Egyptian architecture)
  • Pueblo Revival Style architecture (revival of Puebloan peoples traditional architecture)
  • Mayan Revival architecture (revival of Maya architecture)
  • Indo-Saracenic Revival architecture (revival of Indian architecture and Islamic architecture)
    • Moorish Revival architecture (revival of Moorish architecture)